Sapper Train Up

One of the neat things about the Army is that there are constant opportunities to go to additional schools. When I was still a student I was able to go to Airborne and just out of airplanes. As Engineer students, we have the opportunity to compete for additional follow on schools. I'm trying to get a slot for the Sapper Leader Course. It's a month long course where you learn more engineer skills and spend about ten days in the field doing missions while sleep and food deprived. It is a very physically and mentally tough school. In order to compete for the slots we have a train up program. Up until this week it has been fairly easy. All we have been doing is start PT earlier. Well, Monday we had day zero train up. We started at 4:15 in the evening and had a smoke session (basically working out the entire time) until 10:30pm. Part of the train up included low crawling through a mud puddle multiple times. I've never been so dirty in my life and that was at around 5. we also did some combatives which was the funnest part of the train up. They split us up into two teams of about 15 and we wrestled head to head. A friend posted a video that I'm going to try upload. After the first smoke session we got to go home and shower around 10:30. At 2:30am we had to be back at the PT fields for another 3 hour smoke session. We started with about 40 people and dwindled down to 26. Then we had to go to class all day. It was brutal and we were all falling asleep, but such is life. It was brutal and I'm sooo sore. I have so many bruises but it was worth it!